dabber

K move up to the green route. We'll catch you! I think mozchops has it right - well laid out sections. About the right number of riders for that venue. Much more and the queues get horrific.

Darwen trial this weekend - Big Chick beats dabber. (Only by two marks though).

Brian Walmersley has phoned to say the Darwen MCC meeting went well yesterday with a new commitee being formed. The club will run a trial at Warmden Quarry off the A56 between Rising Bridge and Hapton (m65 J8) on Sunday - 11AM start.

Bikespace. Third in a section! Are you mad?? How do you admire the scenery properly?

Although I dont ride it nearly as much as I would like i still think it was exactly the right bike for me and the type of trial I ride. What would I buy next though, since they dont import it any more??

It's here! The TC hospitality tent. Hurrah.

I can get the Days for

Indoor trial and i feel a night out coming on!

OK, flights and ticket booked. Where is the best (most convenient) place to stay? Is it walking distance from the arena ro the city centre? Who else is off to watch?

Didn't Philip Alderson ride one for a season - probably only in the UK though. Still don't understand why the tank can't be put lower on modern bikes with the air intake much higher up.

Bentley Go to http://www2.flybe.com. i checked and If you fly from Edinburgh to Belfast at 8.00 on the morning of the indoor (19th) the fare is

Ta.

Would be good to see him doing the SSDT, Scott and British Champs for a long while. In his interview in TMX he mentions riding the Scottish - anyone know more on this?

I suppose you could position the "door" out of sight on the Sherco?

Lucky old you!!

Long walk?? It's about 12 miles! You want me to carry some energy tablets up the hill for you Bigfoot? K already has a minder.

Alan, just pics of where to cut. Is it right round the circumference of the box. How much is a new one?

Will come up for a couple of days to come and watch. Which are the best days - any preference Where to stay. I could stay at Aunt's flat in Ballachulish, but would that miss most of the point of having a couple of days up there?? ( )

Thanks for that. How quickly does yours need to be done? I run a 200 which although it's a year old has not done much. It is now sounding a little crackly and certainly not so smooth at the bottom end. Is there a way to repack without chopping them open?

Anyone cut and repacked their silencer without making it look like a dog's breakfast? pictures?

Or the top of Glencoehere And if you want a scary one - watch this for long enough!

Boyd - well put. I ride a 200 Sherco for several reasons. 1. It is MORE than enough for my limited abilities. 2. I have a local dealer who has always looked after me. and most importantly 3. It is fun to ride, pure and simple. Munch I think you point is very relevant and I guess my whole thinking on this post is along the lines of the fact that there is no doubt that the technology is there to make a much more powerful engine, but as Boyd says not many people could ride it. That's the beaty of trials - a HUGE amount of the result is down to the rider NOT the machine.

What if Honda had really pushed the 2 stroke? Also Nigel is right - apart from the engine, the Mont and especially the Sherco are much the same as before. Fudamentally the bikes today are the same as the Beta Zero of the early nineties. They have certainly evolved a lot since then, BUT had alloy perimeter frame, disc brakes, watercooling, monoshock etc. I would guess that the Zero engine weighed less than the new 4s and certainly had smaller dimensions. I remember riding a mono Yam for the first time when they were new and compared to my Cota 348 or a current 340 Bulto it felt massively different. Does the new Mont feel that different to the 315? - not according to Sunt. Where is the next big step coming from?

In the same way that passenger aircraft technology seems to have gone backwards with the scrapping of Concorde has trials done the same with the 4 strokes? Not lighter, no new technology although possibly easier to ride? Was the GG Pro the last big step forward? - Lighter and with a revolutionary gearbox, yet pretty much the same price as it's predecessor. Passenger planes are no faster than 30 years ago when Concorde was introduced. Just bigger and smoother. Whaddaya think chaps?